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authorIan Kent <raven@themaw.net>2022-10-18 10:32:42 +0800
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2022-10-20 13:54:26 +0200
commitaa1d058d48f292aa138e33ad12b7b4d18b5407cd (patch)
treeb217058e2baa1422788a68bf13a628d41110bde3 /fs/kernfs
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kernfs: dont take i_lock on inode attr read
The kernfs write lock is held when the kernfs node inode attributes are updated. Therefore, when either kernfs_iop_getattr() or kernfs_iop_permission() are called the kernfs node inode attributes won't change. Consequently concurrent kernfs_refresh_inode() calls always copy the same values from the kernfs node. So there's no need to take the inode i_lock to get consistent values for generic_fillattr() and generic_permission(), the kernfs read lock is sufficient. Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/166606036215.13363.1288735296954908554.stgit@donald.themaw.net Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/kernfs')
-rw-r--r--fs/kernfs/inode.c4
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/fs/kernfs/inode.c b/fs/kernfs/inode.c
index 3d783d80f5da..74f3453f4639 100644
--- a/fs/kernfs/inode.c
+++ b/fs/kernfs/inode.c
@@ -190,10 +190,8 @@ int kernfs_iop_getattr(struct user_namespace *mnt_userns,
struct kernfs_root *root = kernfs_root(kn);
down_read(&root->kernfs_rwsem);
- spin_lock(&inode->i_lock);
kernfs_refresh_inode(kn, inode);
generic_fillattr(&init_user_ns, inode, stat);
- spin_unlock(&inode->i_lock);
up_read(&root->kernfs_rwsem);
return 0;
@@ -288,10 +286,8 @@ int kernfs_iop_permission(struct user_namespace *mnt_userns,
root = kernfs_root(kn);
down_read(&root->kernfs_rwsem);
- spin_lock(&inode->i_lock);
kernfs_refresh_inode(kn, inode);
ret = generic_permission(&init_user_ns, inode, mask);
- spin_unlock(&inode->i_lock);
up_read(&root->kernfs_rwsem);
return ret;